The Ngozumpa. So this is what a debris-covered glacier looks like!
Yaks (or cows) crossing the 3rd Lake.
Ice face on the Ngozumpa glacier with potential cave openings.
Looking south over the Ngozumpa.
Ice face and a cave entrance (bottom of the picture).
Notice the debris pile on top of the cave entrance, sending down rubble as the ice melts.
Supraglacial lake.
Cho Oyu.
Clouds moving in from the south.
Weird birds hanging out around Gokyo.
More ice faces and lake.
Third lake, on the non-glacier side of the lateral moraine. Clouds moving in.
Third lake.
Trash fire in Gokyo.
Looking southwest across the third lake.
Pretty ice.
More pretty ice.
A (mostly) drained lake on the glacier.
Very instable cave entrance on the right.
Notice the bands of debris in the ice face.
A cave!
It didn't go far.
